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Name: Mr. Olsen
1. a magazine from the time called the "Shipbuilder" said the passenger rooms on the Titanic were "unrivalled extent and magnificence . . .. and the excellent result defies improvement".
"Titanic's interior"
URL: http://www.titanicandco.com/inside.html
2. ships like the Titanic would burn up around 600 tons of coal a day. So they needed to bring a lot of it with them to cross the Atlantic.
"Titanic's Maiden Voyage"
URL: http://www.titanicandco.com/maiden.html
3. the water outside when the ship went down was 4 degrees below freezing, so the people did not survive long in the water
`The Sinking of the Titanic"
URL: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/titanic.htm
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estebanbuitrago1
1. Titanic was named after the Titans, who were giants from Greek mythology.Enormous in size and strength as the titanic structure.
URL: http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/titanic/
2. the maximum capacity of the titanic was of 3,547 but only 2,223 people were on board, including passengers and crew.
URL: http://www.titanicfacts.net/
3. the bigest cause of death was the low temperature, but Charles Joughin was the only person to survive the ice cold Atlantic water...He reportedly had been drinking heavily.
URL: http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
ValentinaStozitzkyFriday, 6:55 pm
There we're 40,000 fresh eggs in the ships provisions
Titanicfacts.net
The price of a single first class ticket was 4,700 dollars (50,000 today)
www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanicfacts.html
The boat had electric elevators, a swimming pool, a squash court, a Turkish bath and a Gymnasium with mechanical horse and mechanical camel.
www.infoplease.com/spot/titanic.html
juansebastian9bSaturday, 11:02 am
14 years before the construction of the Titanic, there was a novel about the greatest ship of the world being sink by an ice berg.
Cats are use on ships for good luck, but in the titanic there were no cats.
The titanic is about as long the Empire State building tall.
miguel cardona Saturday, 3:02 PM many of the passangers that where on the Titanic were not supposed to travel in this ship. what happened was that there where few supplies of coal so the passangers of many ships where putted into one single boat(the titanic), and also all the coal supplies of the other ships where sended to the titanic.
- The lookouts in the crow's nest did not have binoculars. Having binoculars might have prevented the Titanic. - The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
pili-zuluagaSunday 12:19 am
Name:Maria del Pilar Zuluaga Salazar
In 1986, Dr. Robert Ballard and his colleagues specially designed a robot, the Jason Jr., went to the resting place of the Titanic to explore the ship.
"Seawifs" http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/titanic.html
Among the things that sank with the ship was an onboard Turkish bath, libraries, a café, a squash court and a swimming pool. The Titanic also included a wireless radio station, even an infirmary that included an operating room.
"Curiosity.Discovery" http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/passenger-amenities-on-the-titanic
, more than two tons of sausages were in supply. Included elsewhere in the inventory was more than a ton of ice cream and approximately 40 tons of potatoes.
For its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, the luxury liner was stocked with food, the meat alone occupied 34,000 kg, 5,000 kg of fish, 40,000 eggs, 14,000 gallons of drinking water.
"Curiosity.Discovery" http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/much-food-titanic-have-onboard
"RMS stands for Royal Mail Steamer. RMS, in formal terms, means "Royal Merchant Ship". However, the dual meaning was also "Royal Mail Steamer", because the Titanic carried mail under the auspices of His Majesty's postal authorities."
URL: http://www.titanicstory.com/interest.htm
"There were no cats on the Titanic. Cats were often brought on ships as a form of good luck. They also controlled rodents."
URL:http://www.titanicstory.com/interest.htm
1. "On April 17, 1912, the day before survivors of the Titanic disaster reached New York, theMackay-Bennett was sent off from Halifax, Nova Scotia to search for bodies. On board theMackay-Bennett were embalming supplies, 40 embalmers, tons of ice, and 100 coffins. Although the Mackay-Bennett found 306 bodies, 116 of these were too badly damaged to take all the way back to shore. Attempts were made to identify each body found. Additional ships were also sent out to look for bodies. In all, 328 bodies were found, but 119 of these were badly damaged and thus were buried at sea."
andresfajardoSunday 4:22 pm
Andres Fajardo
1. The Titanic lies 12,600 feet (over 2.33 miles) at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
2. Since the death of Millvina Dean, May 31st of 2009, there are no longer any living survivors of the Titanic tragedy. Millvina Dean was just nine weeks old at the time of the Titanic's sinking. http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
3. Both Titanic's sister ships, RMS Olympic & HMHS Britannic, ended up with eerily similar fates. http://www.bookyeti.com/facts.html
4. Chief Officer Henry Wilde, in a letter to his sister a few days before the ship's fateful night, wrote: "I still don't like this ship. I have a queer feeling about it." http://www.bookyeti.com/facts.html
Daniela MolinaYesterday 11:56 PM
1. The History Website said "Passengers traveling first class on Titanic were roughly 44 percent more likely to survive than other passengers"
URL : http://www.history.com/topics/titanic
Jose Miguel Gomez Arbelaez, Monday, March 26, 2012
The Titanic was designed to hold 32 lifeboats, though only 20 were on board; White Star management was concerned that too many boats would sully the aesthetic beauty of the ship
Titanic: 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the World's Most Famous Ship — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/titanic.html#ixzz1qEQaMw3z
April 14th, 2012 will be the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking.
www.eszlinger.com http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
Of children fatalities, only 1 child from first class died, while 49 children from steerage died.
www.eszlinger.com http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
Click "edit" to edit the page. You must be a member of my Wiki to edit the page. Request membership if you don't have it.
Type your name, your three facts numbered, and the website title and url address for each of them.
EXAMPLE (you can not reuse any of this information)
Name: Mr. Olsen
1. a magazine from the time called the "Shipbuilder" said the passenger rooms on the Titanic were "unrivalled extent and magnificence . . .. and the excellent result defies improvement"."Titanic's interior"
URL: http://www.titanicandco.com/inside.html
2. ships like the Titanic would burn up around 600 tons of coal a day. So they needed to bring a lot of it with them to cross the Atlantic.
"Titanic's Maiden Voyage"
URL: http://www.titanicandco.com/maiden.html
3. the water outside when the ship went down was 4 degrees below freezing, so the people did not survive long in the water
`The Sinking of the Titanic"
URL: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/titanic.htm
POST YOUR INFORMATION BELOW HERE ON THE PAGE. READ EVERYONE ELSE'S INFORMATION FIRST. YOU MAY NOT REPEAT ANY FACTS SOMEONE ELSE HAS WRITTEN ALREADY.
estebanbuitrago11. Titanic was named after the Titans, who were giants from Greek mythology.Enormous in size and strength as the titanic structure.
URL: http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/titanic/
2. the maximum capacity of the titanic was of 3,547 but only 2,223 people were on board, including passengers and crew.
URL: http://www.titanicfacts.net/
3. the bigest cause of death was the low temperature, but Charles Joughin was the only person to survive the ice cold Atlantic water...He reportedly had been drinking heavily.
URL: http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
Manu-Vega Friday, 5:06 pm
Many dogs were aboard the Titanic, but only 2 of them survived.
"The TITANIC Page"
URL: http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
Of all the people that died in the Titanic disater, only 306 bodies were found.
"Titanic Facts: True and Tragic"
URL: http://www.titanic-facts.com/titanic-facts.html
The Titanic had its own newspaper, "The Atlantic Daily Bulletin" that was printed every day on board.
"About.com:20th Century History"
URL: http://history1900s.about.com/od/1910s/a/titanicfacts.htm
There we're 40,000 fresh eggs in the ships provisions
Titanicfacts.net
The price of a single first class ticket was 4,700 dollars (50,000 today)
www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanicfacts.html
The boat had electric elevators, a swimming pool, a squash court, a Turkish bath and a Gymnasium with mechanical horse and mechanical camel.
www.infoplease.com/spot/titanic.html
14 years before the construction of the Titanic, there was a novel about the greatest ship of the world being sink by an ice berg.
Cats are use on ships for good luck, but in the titanic there were no cats.
The titanic is about as long the Empire State building tall.
http://www.titanicstory.com/interest.htm
mariajosecardona Saturday, 1:04 pm
Name: Maria Jose Cardona
1.If it was a first class passenger they had to pay $4,350 for each ticket, and the survivors most of them came from first class passengers.
URL:http://www.titanic-facts.com/titanic-facts.html
2.For the ship to be totally constructed it took 3 years and it had 882 feet long.
URL:http://www.titanic-facts.com/titanic-facts.html
3.825 tons of coal was consumed one day in the ship and its total capacity was of 3547 passengers plus the crew.
URL:http://www.titanic-facts.com/titanic-facts.html
miguel cardona Saturday, 3:02 PM
many of the passangers that where on the Titanic were not supposed to travel in this ship. what happened was that there where few supplies of coal so the passangers of many ships where putted into one single boat(the titanic), and also all the coal supplies of the other ships where sended to the titanic.
- The lookouts in the crow's nest did not have binoculars. Having binoculars might have prevented the Titanic.
- The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
http://www.titanicstory.com/interest.htm
Valeria De Los Rios
1. Of children fatalities, only 1 child from first class died, while 49 children from steerage died.
"The T I T A N I C Page"
http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
2. The two pieces of the Titanic lay 1,970 feet apart from one another on the ocean floor.
"The T I T A N I C Page"
http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
3. There were 13 of honeymooning couples on the voyage.
"The Titanic in Numbers"
http://www.titanicfacts.net/
danyra Saturday, 7:51 pm
It tock $7,500,000 to build the RMS Titanic .only workers were killed .
"Building the Titanic"
http://www.titanicfacts.net/
The Titanic was capable of caring 61 life boats for its maximum capacity. there were only took 22
lifeboats aboard .
"Titanic Lifeboats"
http://www.titanicfacts.net/titanic-lifeboats.html
there were 16 boats successfully launch ,whit a capacity of 40 people each boat .There are 472 free spaces on the life boats .
"Titanic Lifeboats" http://www.titanicfacts.net/titanic-lifeboats.html
felipegonzalez Sunday 12:11 am
1.
There were 4 funnels but only 3 were operational. The 4th funnel was for looks.
http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
2.
by law 962 lifeboat seats were required and the boat carried 1,178.
2,208 lifeboat seats were needed.
http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
3.
two workers were killed in the build of the boat.
http://www.titanicfacts.net/
pili-zuluaga Sunday 12:19 am
Name:Maria del Pilar Zuluaga Salazar
In 1986, Dr. Robert Ballard and his colleagues specially designed a robot, the Jason Jr., went to the resting place of the Titanic to explore the ship.
"Seawifs"
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/titanic.html
Among the things that sank with the ship was an onboard Turkish bath, libraries, a café, a squash court and a swimming pool. The Titanic also included a wireless radio station, even an infirmary that included an operating room.
"Curiosity.Discovery"
http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/passenger-amenities-on-the-titanic
, more than two tons of sausages were in supply. Included elsewhere in the inventory was more than a ton of ice cream and approximately 40 tons of potatoes.
For its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, the luxury liner was stocked with food, the meat alone occupied 34,000 kg, 5,000 kg of fish, 40,000 eggs, 14,000 gallons of drinking water.
"Curiosity.Discovery"
http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/much-food-titanic-have-onboard
fabio.baena Sunday 1:33 am
Name: Fabio Baena
"RMS stands for Royal Mail Steamer. RMS, in formal terms, means "Royal Merchant Ship". However, the dual meaning was also "Royal Mail Steamer", because the Titanic carried mail under the auspices of His Majesty's postal authorities."
URL: http://www.titanicstory.com/interest.htm
"There were no cats on the Titanic. Cats were often brought on ships as a form of good luck. They also controlled rodents."
URL:http://www.titanicstory.com/interest.htm
"The ship was still so brand new when passengers boarded it on April 10, 1912 that the paint was still wet in some spots."
URL:http://www.titanic-facts.com/titanic-facts.html
2. 1000 bottles of wine were drink aboard on the Titanic
3. The Titanic had 75,000 lb of fresh meat for its passengers
www.titanicfacts.net
This is the source of all of the information.
7. Colonel John Jacob Astor IV was the wealthiest passenger on board, with an estimated wealth of $87 million.
http://thepioneerwoman.com/homeschooling/2010/06/twenty-interesting-things-about-titanic/
More than 3 million rivets were used to build the Titanic.
http://www.titanicstory.com/interest.htm
The temperature of the Atlantic at the time of sinking was 31 degrees. This temperature was the biggest cause of death among the population.
http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
300 dead bodies were pulled from the sea the next morning. They were found floating in their life-jackets. Many other floating bodies were not found because they had drifted off.
http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
Charles Joughin was the only person to survive the ice cold Atlantic water...He reportedly had been drinking heavily.
http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
Passengers rode the stationary bicycles in the Gymnasium to pass time before the ship sank!
http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
Juanita González Londoño
1. "On April 17, 1912, the day before survivors of the Titanic disaster reached New York, theMackay-Bennett was sent off from Halifax, Nova Scotia to search for bodies. On board theMackay-Bennett were embalming supplies, 40 embalmers, tons of ice, and 100 coffins. Although the Mackay-Bennett found 306 bodies, 116 of these were too badly damaged to take all the way back to shore. Attempts were made to identify each body found. Additional ships were also sent out to look for bodies. In all, 328 bodies were found, but 119 of these were badly damaged and thus were buried at sea."
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1910s/a/titanicfacts.htm
2. Among the property reported as lost on the Titanic were over 3000 bags of mail and an automobile.
http://www.titanic-facts.com/titanic-facts.html
3. The Titanic lies 12,600 feet (over 2.33 miles) at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
4. It cost $7,500,000 to build the Titanic.
http://www.titanic-facts.com/titanic-facts.html
simon1995 Sunday 2:11 pm
1.There were 13 couples on board celebrating their
Honeymoons.
http://www.titanicstory.com/interest.htm
2.Captain Smith was planning to retire after Titanic's maiden voyage.
http://www.titanicstory.com/interest.htm
3.Official ship number: 131,428
http://www.titanicstory.com/interest.htm
Sunday 2:19 pm
The Titanic used 14,000 gallons of drinking water every 24 hours.
http://www.titanicstory.com/interest.htm
Andres Fajardo
1. The Titanic lies 12,600 feet (over 2.33 miles) at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
2. Since the death of Millvina Dean, May 31st of 2009, there are no longer any living survivors of the Titanic tragedy. Millvina Dean was just nine weeks old at the time of the Titanic's sinking.
http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
3. Both Titanic's sister ships, RMS Olympic & HMHS Britannic, ended up with eerily similar fates.
http://www.bookyeti.com/facts.html
4. Chief Officer Henry Wilde, in a letter to his sister a few days before the ship's fateful night, wrote: "I still don't like this ship. I have a queer feeling about it."
http://www.bookyeti.com/facts.html
Maria_Alejandra_Vargas Sunday 9:13 pm
1. It took the workers 3 years to build the titanic and it cost aroun $ 7.5 millon to get build.
http://www.titanicuniverse.com/titanic-facts
2. They reported lost in the titanic, 1 car and thousands of mail bags
http://www.titanic-facts.com/titanic-facts.html
3. The temperature of the water when the titanic sank was of -2 degrees.
http://www.titanicfacts.net/
4.It took 76 years to found the wreck of the Titanic.
http://www.titanicfacts.net/
Daniela Molina Yesterday 11:56 PM
1. The History Website said "Passengers traveling first class on Titanic were roughly 44 percent more likely to survive than other passengers"
URL : http://www.history.com/topics/titanic
2. Website called "Titanic-nautical" said that the "iceberg was approximated at 50 to 100 feet high and 200 to 400 feet long"
URL: http://www.titanic-nautical.com/RMS-Titanic-Iceberg-FAQ.html
3. Out of 2,223 people only 706 survived the other 1,517 died.
URL :
http://www.titanic-nautical.com/RMS-Titanic-W.html
Jose Miguel Gomez Arbelaez, Monday, March 26, 2012
The Titanic was designed to hold 32 lifeboats, though only 20 were on board; White Star management was concerned that too many boats would sully the aesthetic beauty of the ship
Titanic: 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the World's Most Famous Ship — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/titanic.html#ixzz1qEQaMw3z
April 14th, 2012 will be the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking.
www.eszlinger.com
http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
Of children fatalities, only 1 child from first class died, while 49 children from steerage died.
www.eszlinger.com
http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html
Santiago roncancio hoyos
Daily coal consumption: 825 tons
“hubpages” http://sameerkounbar.hubpages.com/hub/steamshipTitanic
Titanic carried 900 tons of baggage and cargo
“Hubpages”http://sameerkounbar.hubpages.com/hub/steamshipTitanic
* The ship's captain Smith was planning to retire after a trip Titanic first.
“hubpages” * http://sameerkounbar.hubpages.com/hub/steamshipTitanic
Daniela Gonzalez Rojas 10a 7:52 pm- Two dogs survive of the Titanic
- 13 couples were celebrating the honeymoons in the Titanic
- the Tictanic has 4 elevators 3 in high class and 1 in the middle class or second class
http://www.titanicstory.com/interest.htmNATALIA AGUDELO
Waterloo was the London train station where most of the first and second class passengers board to travel down to Southampton
http://www.funtrivia.com/en/World/RMS-Titanic-14205.html
In 1912, skilled shipyard workers who built Titanic earned £2 per week. Unskilled workers earned £1 or less per week
http://www.discovernorthernireland.com/Titanic-Facts-A1515
The Titanics' decks were numbered alphabetically downwards. Today, decks are numbered Deck 1, 2, etc, upwards.
http://www.keyflux.com/titanic/facts.htm
Passenger Flotation had 3,560 life belts and 48 ringbouys.
http://www.titanic-nautical.com/titanic-facts.html
camila-aristi Mar 27, 2012 6:49 pm
1. "There were 2228 people on board of the Titanic, 337 in first class, 285 second class, 721 in third class and 885 crew members."
URL: http://www.titanic-facts.com/passengers-on-the-titanic.html
2." Of the 2,228 passengers and crew members who set sail, only 705 Titanic passengers survived."
URL: http://www.titanic-facts.com/passengers-on-the-titanic.html
3. "The Titanic was designed to hold 32 lifeboats, though only 20 were on board; White Star management was concerned that too many boats would sully the aesthetic beauty of the ship."
URL: http://www.keyflux.com/titanic/facts.htm